ASIN: B01IMTR1GQ
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 278
A DRAKE RIORDAN DETECTIVE NOVEL.I pause a moment outside the barbwire fence of the Navy Pier to watch a Yellowjack Truck go through the vehicle gate. It's a big six-wheeled deuce-and-a-half and I know its carrying another load of bodies destined for the crematoriums. For a moment, I wonder how many trucks like this one have passed through this gate in the last year. It was a just year ago in 1943 that the Blood Pox struck here in Chicago. It was like the city I knew burned in a great fire, but it wasn’t a fire that burned buildings. No, it was a fire that burned people. Friends, enemies, and strangers have all perished, victims of the most devastating plague in human history. Their ravaged bodies were collected by the Yellowjacks and brought through this gate in front of me to act as fuel for this terrible conflagration..If Chicago is a burning city, then the Navy Pier is the angry ...
